Hello All, We have been here a couple of days. Warm enlightened city of peoples unification and rightousness, or something poetic like that. The weather is quintisentially british, smog and a little warm rain today, but at least we are not at work. Today visited Tianaman Square, The forbidden city and tonight we are going to a kung-fu show. i will try and nominate Rachel as a punch bag. So far have not paid more than 1.50 pound for a meal. eating lots of chinese food (oh and a KFC for breakfast as could not face dumplings and dog.) The people on the trip with us seem nice and most are using this as a starting point for a RTW trip. Communications are a little slow, mobile phones are not working so dont worry if you have no returned text messages. pictures to follow. Signing off Andy and Rachel